Game news Microsoft admits three Bethesda games will be exclusives…
Microsoft announces three Bethesda games that should be exclusive to their machines.
Microsoft has published a document in response to the FTC’s complaint. In it, the firm announces three Bethesda-edited games, which will be Xbox and PC exclusives.
Will the next Bethesda titles be on PlayStation and Nintendo?
When Microsoft acquired Zenimax, and therefore its subsidiary Bethesdait was understood (and subsequently confirmed by Phil Spencer) that the decisions about Bethesda games and whether or not they would be Microsoft exclusives would be made on a case-by-case basis. That is, not all future Bethesda games should be outcasts. But Microsoft may have just dampened the hopes of PlayStation and Nint gamersendo for the upcoming titles …
Three games will be exclusive to PC and Xbox
December 22, Microsoft released a document, open to the public, of 37 pages and intended for the FTC, in order to answer their complaint related to the takeover of Activision – Blizzard. The document, which must serve to defend the firm’s argumentscontains a page 6 partly censored. Indeed, Microsoft has decided to redact the names of several games what they are talking about. So we can read:
The complaint’s reference to Microsoft’s recent acquisition of ZeniMax – a collection of game studios acquired in 2020 – is unrelated to the current transaction. After the closing of this transaction, the first two new games from ZeniMax became exclusive to PlayStation for one year after launch. Xbox is planning that three future titles – (CENSORED GAMES TITLES) – all of which are designed to be played primarily alone or in small groups – will be exclusive to Xbox and PC. But in keeping with its historic approach, Xbox has continued to release new updates to existing ZeniMax games such as Fallout 76 and The Elder Scrolls Online on Xbox and PlayStation, as these games are designed to be played together by large communities of gamers. on different platforms. This latest set of games is the one that most closely resembles Call of Duty. Thus, the ZeniMax experience goes against the idea that Xbox would make this game exclusive. And it’s not just ZeniMax games where Xbox has taken this approach; Xbox has also expanded access to Minecraft, a similar multiplayer game with a large existing community of gamers who play together from different platforms, since its acquisition. If there was any doubt left, Xbox’s offer to bring Call of Duty to other platforms on commercially favorable terms for those platforms should eliminate it.
What games is Microsoft talking about?
You would have understood it, Microsoft announces three Bethesda games exclusive to PC and Xbox machines. But what games are we talking about? We can already eliminating Starfield from possibilities : the exclusivity of the game on Microsoft machines being public information, Microsoft would not have no reason to censor his name with the FTC. Ditto for the title Redfalldeveloped by Arkane, its exclusivity is known. We know it will be solo games, or in small groups, so no MMO or game intended primarily for multiplayer. The three games that seem most likely to us, among those that we know are in development, are therefore: IndianaJonesa game still quite mysterious and developed by Machine Games; The Elder Scrolls VI, the question of exclusivity of which remains unresolved; and potentially Fallout 5, which has already been mentioned by Bethesda execs, for release after TES VI. he is also possible that Microsoft speaks here of titles still unknown to the public. In any case, we know that three of the next games published by Bethesda, intended for solo or small groups of players, will be playable only on Xbox and PC.
Source : ANSWER AND DEFENSES OF RESPONDENT MICROSOFT CORP.
Starfield and Redfall, Bethesda’s next projects, are due out sometime next year.
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